Florence Nightingale Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! === The Lady with the Lamp === [[File:Florence Nightingale. Coloured lithograph. Wellcome V0006579.jpg|thumb|''[[Miss Nightingale at Scutari (1854)|The Lady with the Lamp]]''. Popular lithograph reproduction of a painting of Nightingale by [[Henrietta Rae]], 1891.]] During the Crimean War, Nightingale gained the nickname "The Lady with the Lamp" from a phrase in a report in ''[[The Times]]'': {{quote|text=She is a "ministering angel" without any exaggeration in these hospitals, and as her slender form glides quietly along each corridor, every poor fellow's face softens with gratitude at the sight of her. When all the medical officers have retired for the night and silence and darkness have settled down upon those miles of prostrate sick, she may be observed alone, with a little lamp in her hand, making her solitary rounds.|author=William Russell|title=|source=Cited in Cook, E. T. (1913). ''The Life of Florence Nightingale''. Vol. 1, p. 237.}} The phrase was further popularised by [[Henry Wadsworth Longfellow]]'s 1857 poem "Santa Filomena":<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/poetry/nov1857/filomena.htm |date=November 1857 |title=Santa Filomena |first=Henry Wadsworth |last=Longfellow |pages=22β23 |work=The Atlantic Monthly |access-date=13 March 2010 |archive-date=14 May 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080514235021/http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/poetry/nov1857/filomena.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> {{poemquote|Lo! in that house of misery A lady with a lamp I see Pass through the glimmering gloom, And flit from room to room.}} Nightingale was nicknamed "the lady with the hammer" by the troops after using a hammer to break into locked storage to access medicine to treat the wounded. However, Russell thought the behaviour was unladylike, and invented an alternative, leading to "The Lady with the Lamp".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.virago.co.uk/virago-news/2020/04/23/rebel-women-florence-nightingale/ |title=Rebel Women, Florence Nightingale |last=Miles |first=Rosalind |date=23 April 2020 |website=[[Hachette UK]] |publisher=[[Little, Brown Book Group]] |access-date=19 March 2024 |via=[[Virago Press]]}}</ref><ref> {{cite journal |last1=Martini |first1=Mariano |last2=Lippi |first2=Donatella |date=15 September 2021 |title=SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) and the Teaching of Ignaz Semmelweis and Florence Nightingale: a Lesson of Public Health from History, after the "Introduction of Handwashing" (1847) |url=https://www.jpmh.org/index.php/jpmh/article/view/2161/908 |journal=Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene |volume=62 |issue=3 |pages=621β624 |doi=10.15167/2421-4248/jpmh2021.62.3.2161 |access-date=March 19, 2024}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page